April 26th, 2008
Tomorrow (sunday, april 27th) at 10am PDT, Ben Lorica (O’Reilly) will present the Virtual Worlds Business Guide by O’Reilly and discuss their recent findings.
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The conference is just one among many at the Virtual Business Expo, taking place in Second Life (or “inworld”, as we use to say) for four days, with the following topics: […]
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April 25th, 2008
A new issue of the popular virtual world magazine Avastar is out!
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April 24th, 2008
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/mckinsey-compan.html
McKinsey & Company, a famous management consulting firm (wikipedia), is deeply involved in virtual worlds, and Second Life.
From a news source:
An unnamed senior consultant told the Times Online that companies “absolutely” should be “experimenting in virtual worlds” to attract customers under 30 and were “ignoring them at their peril.”
I agree: virtual worlds, and social networks, […]
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April 8th, 2008
Dear readers,
I’d need some help: I’m looking for events and conferences about virtual worlds (and web 2.0, storage, Information Technology) in Europe in 2008, to plan my travel schedule.
Do you have any to suggest?
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April 4th, 2008
I’m pleased to read that we’ll have a great Virtual Worlds Conference in London, on october 20-21, 2008.
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Will you attend? I really hope to :-)
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March 19th, 2008
Fashion in Second Life is, and will be, a huge hit.
In Real Life, I give fashion some importance, but not too much. I never spend 300 euros on a pair of shoes, or a thousand and beyond for a suit.
However, there is an important fragment of the population, and thus of the market, that gives […]
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March 18th, 2008
It’s not just virtual worlds, but Disney predicts to have one billion dollars in revenue this 2008 year, up from the 700 million for last 2007 year.
This is interesting, because it means that online technologies, and virtual worlds in particular, are definitively here to stay.
I also think that as soon as we’ll have more bandwidth […]
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March 17th, 2008
You know my story, right? I will probably be hired by Amazon.com, thanks to a Luxembourg Virtual Job Fair to which I attended in last november. That was great!
Now there are plenty of virtual worlds job out there… check here for more details, maybe it’s your turn!
I see a great advantage for employers here. Less […]
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February 27th, 2008
Good news: realXtend joins OpenSim.
I really hope OpenSim will eventually become an open standard for virtual worlds… and I also hope that Linden Lab will face this dilemma once and for all.
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February 26th, 2008
Download this PDF and read it, it’s well worth it.
It’s a forecast for Virtual Worlds in 2008.
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